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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Sharett, Moshe, 1894-1965
Schuman, Robert, 1886-1963
McDonald, James G. (James Grover), 1886-1964
Griffis, Stanton, 1887-1974
Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948
Caffery, Jefferson, 1886-1974
Pinkerton, Lowell Call, 1894-1959
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
September 27, 1948
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
PALESTINE
Our Ambassador in Cairo reports that in discussing the
Bernadotte plan for Palestine the Egyptian Foreign Min-
ister at no time stated unequivocally that Egypt would refuse to accept
it, though at the same time inveighing in the usual Arab vein against
Israel. Our Minister in Beirut gathered the impression from his con-
versation on the plan with the Lebanese Foreign Minister that Lebanon
is prepared to admit the existence of the state of Israel but will con-
tinue to refuse to have any relations with it. In conversations with
our Ambassador and the British Ambassador in Baghdad the Iragi Prime
Minister emphasized the need for guarantees for the Arab states against
the Jews and gave the impression that such guarantees would be an impor-
tant consideration in obtaining Arab acquiescence to the Bernadotte plan.
Azzam Pasha, the Secretary General of the Arab League has expressed vio-
lent opposition to the Bernadotte plan both to our representatives and
the British and was scornful of any international guarantees. He did
finally seem, however, to realize the necessity for arrangements cor-
responding to the existing situation. In a conversation with our Consul
General in Jerusalem, the Israeli Foreign Minister said that the Jews
will not consider internationalization of Jerusalem and object to
Bernadotte's proposals concerning the Negeb and making Haifa and Lydda
airport free ports.
FRANCE
Caffery reports that in a conversation Foreign Minister
Schuman was extremely critical of the behavior in recent
months of the French Assembly but said that at least the recent politi-
cal crises in France had served to convince the Assembly that it could
not follow a policy of taking the easiest road. He said that, while he
is opposed to elections at the present time, he might consider them
favorably after the present government had taken urgently needed mea-
sures to save the franc but emphasized that a new electoral law would
be needed if a stable majority were to result from the elections.
Caffery also reports that a recent vote in the French Assembly on the
holding of local elections shows that the government is unable to hold
the unanimity of any political group. The leader of the non-Communist
French labor confederation, Force Ouvriere, has vigorously attacked the
government's wage-price program as offering no relief to the workers and
an anti-Communist labor leader has informed our Embassy in Paris that
workers' demonstrations recently held in France were not designed so
much to obtain higher wages as to force the government to effect a re-
distribution of national income in favor of the working classes.